Fozzie Bear
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It's almost as if people expect the BBC to report on any old bollocks and not have its own interests/agenda.
Urban v's the Commentariat
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J Ed
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I agree with you, though I do think that they should have provided a bit of coverage rather than totally ignoring the protest, but putting aside whether the BBC is being reasonable or not - isn't there some tactical value in acting as if they were being unreasonable?
FridgeMagnet
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Nah, it's rubbish. The BBC website will produce a story about the most utterly trivial rubbish imaginable - the idea that tens of thousands of people marching through London for political reasons wouldn't have had articles because it "wasn't newsworthy" is just absurd.
I was quite cynical about the whole thing when I turned up, but there was a decent number of different groups there (much broader than some other marches dominated by the big unions) and even the speeches were okay - I stayed much longer than I usually do, though usually I duck out to the pub after the second speaker anyway so that's not saying much. I wasn't expecting a lot in the news but I was expecting at least one reasonably sized piece and was quite surprised that there was just _nothing_.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/24/sheffield-reporter-arrest-anti-terrorism-laws
The national mass media, Mail, Guardian, etc is now picking up on the freedom ride by pensioners in S.Yorks, and the arrests of some of its members, pensioners, this is about 30 people, yet this is getting coverage, something unusual is happening now with the BBC, imo.
The national mass media, Mail, Guardian, etc is now picking up on the freedom ride by pensioners in S.Yorks, and the arrests of some of its members, pensioners, this is about 30 people, yet this is getting coverage, something unusual is happening now with the BBC, imo.
Rural
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I believe this is relevant cos Farage only has to sneeze & it's all over the msm. Any left-wing opp to the govt is ignored. I know he's often mentioned in a "what bonkers, eccentric, insular comment has he made now?" fashion but it's still publicity. All to do with british (media?)'s preoccupation with personalities in politics, the more outlandish the better. There r no comparable personalities on the left for the media to dwell on. Maybe non-personalities (Owen Jones)
I was surprised to read about the march on here given that I read the papers, tv, radio etc and had heard nothing.
FridgeMagnet
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Well quite, and there wasn't that much on here about it either.
fractionMan
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I didn't even know it was going to happen, let alone that it had happened. And I only found that out from here.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I didn't see anything about it on here until after the event.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I was vaguely aware it was going to happen but discounted the possibility of going to it because it's hundreds of miles away and I have a job to be at and small children to look after. And because we've marched for things in our thousands before and fuck all changed. I expect that means I don't care.
FridgeMagnet
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I didn't see a single post apart from one jokey one about it, on Urban.
Somehow I guess nobody would be accusing you of not caring as they weren't even referring to it at all. It might not have happened as far as the BBC was concerned, but it also might not have happened as far as Urban was concerned.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I saw a few people talking about it on Twitter in the weeks beforehand but that's a function of the sort of people I follow as much as anything. The not caring thing was a reference to Owen Jones et al who fall back on the 'yeah? But what do you do?' argument whenever anyone asks what this sort of event actually achieves
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Which is why the thread about the event has an aura of 'What's you point, caller?' about it, in my opinion.
Theisticle
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Christ, Penny writes a long piece about trans rights and manges to insert herself into the piece (a common theme):
"Explaining why this is so significant is hard for me, because I’m about as close as you can get to the trans rights movement without being trans yourself."
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2014/06/laurie-penny-what-transgender-tipping-point-really-means
"Explaining why this is so significant is hard for me, because I’m about as close as you can get to the trans rights movement without being trans yourself."
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2014/06/laurie-penny-what-transgender-tipping-point-really-means
calm down dear.
Theisticle
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On a semi-related note, isn't it interesting how there's been almost total silence from the NS on the Al Jazeera journalism trial. No editorials, no protests, no real condemnation.
Theisticle
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LOL
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I can supply a review of this in advance:
'I knew it wasn't going well at the interval, when instead of ice creams they came round with a tray of cyanide capsules.'
rekil
to menny cranks
Yep, and apparently Beard responded with this nonsense.
That reminds me of this 1985 piece on Dermot Bolger, a writer who went to my school.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Bolger's late 80s novel, The Journey Home was a searing piece of social realism about the Irish crisis of that decade. His novel from a few years back about the Goold-Verschoyle family - a real big house family who produced a couple of upper-class Stalinists in the 1930s - wasn't worth finishing, I thought.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Astonishing - three women. All private school. All Oxbridge. All examples of what outspoken women should be. No swinging maces or that here. All white panel again. And yet again, my mum's not on there.
rekil
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Theisticle
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Haha, she tweets a variant of this every time she gets called out.
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